New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-17
THE FEDERATION L4BOR.
MR.. GOMPERS REELECTED PRESIDENT.
THE DELEGATES CONGRATULATING THEMSELVES
ON THE GROWTH OF THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
oRING INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION AND IRISH
HOME RULE.
IDY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUxE.l

oRING INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION AND IRISH
HOME RULE.
ny TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBCSE.1
BALTIMORE, Dec l6.-It was nearly +. to-day
when the convention OF the American Federation OF
Labor adjourned with considerable unfinished business
laid for tomorrow In the afternoon Ricnari T.
Ely, Professor of Social Science in the Johns Hopkins
University appeared before the convention and spoke
for half an hour. The convention will finish It's work
Tomorrow and all the delegates will he heartily glad OF
It, The reduction in the per capita tax agreed to-
Each state federation must pay $50 annually.
The important fight OF the day over the final
article of the constitution. 1t reads as follows:
This constitution can be amended or altered only at
regular session of tho conventions and To do so II shall
require twothirds vote the delegates and must be
ratified within SIX weeks thereafter nv majority vote
OF the members of the societies composing this fedora
tion.
The committee struck on; the part referring to the
manner in which the will take place. The discus
sion on this point caused the biggest right that the con
vcntIon has yet had President Gompcrs ruled that Tho
report Of the committee changing the constitution acted
immediate change by the convention Of the con
stitu,iOn and declared tina, twothirds vote must hc
pollcd to carry it, Delegate Mcbride of the coal miners
appealed from the decision of the chair Mr. Gonperss
decision reversed. lie became angry AZ THIS and
called to the delegates to elect chairman and he took
the floor because he said. he would not participate in
Illegal act. A delegate called 10 the chair.
President Gompcrs spoke i'll excited manner against
motion TO accept the report OF the comnItee By
majority vote only. lie defeated
The report of the Finance COmmtcc WAS rclI and ac-
ceped The Committee Officers Reports were III favor
OF sending delegates to the luterna tOnal Confer
in London neAt year. but 1t was thought TO hc TOO
costly poor tramp, they said, went 10 prison for 81
while millionaire Ike Jacob SHARP went free and they
asked tie federation TO look more carefully after the
enforcement of law cheer shovel the feeling oI The
delegates Ihis matter. The following recoinmenda-
tion was also received with applause:
The WOnaeIiu "nd Gn4' eis4 cN"isl"h 81 l' ''. o"
Labor the la>i year Is due We think Ia combI'-
o cifcuHs of Which the three following 1c the
F,t lhe wolkmcn of the different trades have realized
thai the who employed In any particular Wolh ol
the trade and TIA, core resolved 80 join ie Organization
second. The great suihcs which have taken place
wi'hn The ls few Aeas In eonn[c%"n % & rla lis hng1
with c management Of thcir Affairs as IT as been Gus,
mdn 70 S tp "'i nSco ar bDr oc fnni. wce cSh,''d
and then order them back 20 work at N" employers terms
Third There Is strong sentiment prevailing and
rapidly increasing among worlnemcn in favor Of open
oeanizat ON and hat the tine has arrived for The working
th1t the laws and Cons iufon o this country confer
eh and 20 IT The rights of "a or openly earlesly
In the matter OF The Peace Commission, IN favor 0f
which W. II. Cremcr spoke before the convention on
Wednesday, Samuel Gon}crs introduced resolution ap
proving the arbitration OF internal disputes.
Joseph wilkinson, ~ Ncw-i ork. moved add that the
convention extends ymrahcs to the pee pie of Ireland
lOcy Of the British in the ~
the Irish poole This received with great applause
The next convention VIII De hcld in st Louis.
Samuel Gompcrs, tie Irc.id'n 0, The Il lra lon,
reelected the PCS ton by the unanimous Of the
delegates Daniel Mci@u"hn, Of the Illinois Miners
A. ciit on Wa 'ci hi. I!-1I9e-l ni. lie hta hh
Amagama'ed ana sire Workers, elected second
Car erc and % Jccr m a. h''i hc Pe1i % c ' ,9y I 20, o.
the brotherhood Of carpenters ana Jones, was elected
ihc position ol treasurer